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CECILIA GONZÁLEZ
The triumph of Claudia Sheinbaum in the presidential elections in Mexico marks a watershed in the country's history, strengthens the Latin American left and opposes the advances that the extreme right has had in the region in recent years.
JEFFREY D SACHS
Since 1992, every president has left the United States and the world closer to nuclear annihilation than his predecessor. The Doomsday Clock read 17 minutes to midnight when Clinton came to power, but only 9 minutes when he left. Bush reduced the clock to just 5 minutes, Obama to 3 minutes, and Trump to just 100 seconds. Now Biden has reduced the clock to 90 seconds.
Biden has led the United States into three devastating crises, any of which could end in Armageddon. Washington seems to be single-minded these days: more funding for the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, more weaponry for Taiwan.
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LUIS BRITTO GARCÍA
Everything you read, write, speak, record, photograph, or communicate on a computing device will surely end up in the hands of a U.S. law enforcement agency or its accomplices. The same will happen with your own data, that of your loved ones and your recipients, with information about everything you own, use, buy, rent, consume, borrow, throw away or want. The same will happen with your trips, infractions or contraventions: everything will be recorded and preserved even after you have forgotten it or die, for the exclusive use of surveillance agencies or monopolies.
CECILIA VALDEZ
They have disowned their parents since they learned of their past and are working to modify the law that prevents testifying against direct relatives and descendants in Argentina.
“Today, when the executive branch seeks to deny, and even vindicate, the genocide, we have to insist that neither from the State, nor from any sphere, can an extermination be endorsed, not even with silence,” says Pablo. Verna, who testified for the first time in a trial against humanity.
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After the period of talks in Havana, the peace talks between the guerrilla and the Colombian government have entered a new phase, now in Caracas. After a first round until April 22, both parties will negotiate again in the Venezuelan capital between May 20 and 25. However, it does not seem that the road is being easy.
This is the conclusion drawn after the conversation held somewhere in Caracas with the ELN's chief negotiator, Commander Pablo Beltrán. A man who has been in the guerrilla for 54 of his 70 years.
CECILIA VALDEZ
Following a demand from socio-environmental assemblies and indigenous peoples, the highest provincial court of Catamarca has prohibited the delivery of new permits for the exploitation of lithium and ordered that studies be carried out on the impact of all projects in the region, which means a hard blow for the provincial government and lithium multinationals, an essential resource for batteries in electronic devices and the much-mentioned energy transition.
PASCUAL SERRANO
As things stand with the new panorama announced on April 18, the American company Chevron is the only one that is granted permission to market, leaving the Spanish Repsol, the Italian Eni and the Spanish company out of the market and under threat of sanction. the French Maurel/Prom, all of them in commercial negotiations with PDVSA.
With the alibi of pressuring the Venezuelan government to be more democratic on the eve of its presidential elections on July 18, the “American friend” whom it truly sanctions is the European oil companies, which it prevents from marketing its oil.
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CECILIA VALDEZ
The surplus hides an adjustment that has slowed consumption, destroyed salaries, increased rates, punished one of the most vulnerable sectors of society - the retirees - and fueled a time bomb in a country where more than half of the population is poor (57%).
Many of those who supported him (and still support him) are beginning to question the deadlines. The great unknown is whether Argentine society will be able to find some coordinated response to such an onslaught.
FABIAN SCHEIDLER
If the US authorities manage to convict a journalist for exposing war crimes, this would have another serious consequence. In the future, it would be even more difficult and dangerous to expose the sordid reality of wars, especially those wars that Western governments like to sell as civilizing missions with the help of embedded journalists. If we don't know the truth about these wars, it will be much easier to fight them.
JULIAN CRIBB
The hottest month of January ever recorded in the history of humanity has passed, without governments around the world and the international media having given so much as a wink.
JAYRO SANCHEZ
Mario Amorós is a Spanish journalist and historian specialized in the history of Chile. He has written numerous works about this country, including internationally renowned biographies on Salvador Allende, Miguel Enríquez, Augusto Pinochet, Pablo Neruda and Víctor Jara. The first of them has been republished by Captain Swing on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état.
PASCUAL SERRANO
According to calculations by the think tank Common Wealth, the social cost of carbon emissions from the US and UK armies is approximately $111.000 billion. Money that is stolen from the finances of the nations most threatened by the climate crisis.
